@clive As others have already said: It's *partly* understandable, maybe unavoidable. Everyone has to die of *something* eventually. So, an old person dying from a heart or respiratory disease or from cancer is not a news story in and of itself. A homicide or terrorist attack is.

I guess, the bigger problem is *how* the media coverage is done, if it helps inciting exaggerated panic and establishing policies that harm a lot of other peoples' rights while trying to prevent terrorism.